I'll try to get this out. My computer is locking up and I don't get much done. I tried to blog on M's computer and I didn't know my password, so no luck then. Anyway.....the little girls are in VBS this week. I thought I'd get so much done in the mornings all alone, but NOT....then in the pm I take them swimming. Kat is taking care of our neighbor's dogs and we get to swim in the pool. NICE!!! Hannah is at church camp. The weather has been LOVELY, so that's a comfort to the mom. I needed to realize how much H does for me around here. I really miss her help with the girls. And I thought she mostly was the "aggravator". Silly me. Softball is over--yay! Kat's team had the best record in the division and lost the first game of the tournament---sad! She had a good season, playing first base, had a grand slam homerun one night--way cool!! Abby quit kicking the dirt and got a hit most nights. She says she is not going on to "kid pitch next year", fine with me!!
We go to Searcy to retrieve Jess this weekend. Yay! We will have a van load of stuff, plan to stop in Branson and see our good cousins, Wayne and Joy. The girls will get to stay here with a friend and family who love to keep them---they are the best!!! That's most of the news, besides Mark's sister, Cindy donated her kidney to her husband, Joe, today. The surgery went well and we hope that it "takes" and Joe recovers completely.
We enjoyed a wonderful vacation/camping trip/family reunion 2 weeks ago in AR. We counted 88 family members there. We were missing about 30 folks--some of our favs too, bummer. The weather couldn't have been nicer for the "tent people." We had an air conditioner on a card table zipped into our tent, took the humidity out of the tent. The girls LOVE camp, so many little cousins to play with, all day and past dark. Hannah enjoyed all the little ones and then the big cousins played cards with her at night. She had a great time. M played a bunch of cards, some kickball, some volleyball, did some fishing and relaxed a ton. We always eat so well, including the BEST bread puddin on the planet. LOVE IT!! Wayne and Joy crashed the party and had a local hotel room, so we got to see them, they got to experience camp, the girls got to swim in a pool and I got my only hot shower of the week there. Yay! Joy also helped me on my cook day---peeled the 80 lbs of potatoes herself, what a woman!!! Camp is so much fun for the kids, so good to see all the relatives. So good to realize there are many friends in the mix, not just folks we see at camp. We soak up all the laughs and hugs and try to remember all the fun when we are unpacking, doing a million loads of laundry and putting it all away until it rolls around again, next year! ARGH!!!
No big plans for the 4th yet. We never have done all the hoopla here in Indep--our local city band and fireworks, maybe fun. We'll see. The jogging report is good. I did 12 laps today---3 1/2 miles in 40 minutes, a new record for me. I never have gone that far and I didn't die. We'll see how far and how fast I can go before I keel over on the trail. lol
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